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C-130 at Bermuda Airport
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By: Ozzy
@ 2006-12-09 01:43:42
Bermuda Airport (BDA)]]>

C-130 at Bermuda Airport
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By: Ozzy
@ 2006-12-09 01:43:42
Bermuda Airport (BDA)]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/c-130-at-bermuda-airport/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/c-130-at-bermuda-airport/ Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:43:42 -0800 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/c-130-at-bermuda-airport/ 32.36301600 -64.70259500

Cruise Ship Docked at Ordinance Island
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 21:13:16]]>

Cruise Ship Docked at Ordinance Island
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 21:13:16]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/cruise-ship-docked-at-ordinance-island/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/cruise-ship-docked-at-ordinance-island/ Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:13:16 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/cruise-ship-docked-at-ordinance-island/ 32.37985300 -64.67660000

Unfinished Church
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 21:04:38
From http://www.bermudatourism.com/default.asp?page=what_to_do.html:

Construction of the church started in the 1870s. The magnificent Gothic structure was meant to be a replacement for St. Peter’s Church. Following a series of problems, including parish infighting, financial difficulties and a damaging storm, it was abandoned on the eve of its completion. Today, the picturesque ruins are a protected historic monument and part of the St. George's World Heritage Site.]]>

Unfinished Church
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 21:04:38
From http://www.bermudatourism.com/default.asp?page=what_to_do.html:

Construction of the church started in the 1870s. The magnificent Gothic structure was meant to be a replacement for St. Peter’s Church. Following a series of problems, including parish infighting, financial difficulties and a damaging storm, it was abandoned on the eve of its completion. Today, the picturesque ruins are a protected historic monument and part of the St. George's World Heritage Site.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/unfinished-church/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/unfinished-church/ Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:04:38 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/unfinished-church/ 32.38380300 -64.67676000

Fort St. Catherine
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 21:00:30
From http://www.bermuda-online.org/forts.htm:

It was one of early Bermuda's fortifications against the Spanish, French - and, much later, the Americans. The fort dates back to 1614, when first built by Governor Richard Moore to defend Gates Bay where the colonists landed. In 1793, Captain Andrew Durnford strengthened the battery at St. Catherine's Point and built a new battery with a guardhouse on the hill behind the fort. Major Thomas Blanchard replaced the upper battery with a circular fort in the 1820s. There was a massive reconstruction from 1865 to 1878. It included 25 foot thick concrete embrasures and casemates, so that the fort could be rearmed with five rifled 18 ton muzzle loading cannons. They could send a 400 pound shell half a mile to pierce 11 inches of solid iron. It was a training ground for local forces and the British Army in the early 1900s. In World War 2, an American magnetic loop was installed at the fort.]]>

Fort St. Catherine
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 21:00:30
From http://www.bermuda-online.org/forts.htm:

It was one of early Bermuda's fortifications against the Spanish, French - and, much later, the Americans. The fort dates back to 1614, when first built by Governor Richard Moore to defend Gates Bay where the colonists landed. In 1793, Captain Andrew Durnford strengthened the battery at St. Catherine's Point and built a new battery with a guardhouse on the hill behind the fort. Major Thomas Blanchard replaced the upper battery with a circular fort in the 1820s. There was a massive reconstruction from 1865 to 1878. It included 25 foot thick concrete embrasures and casemates, so that the fort could be rearmed with five rifled 18 ton muzzle loading cannons. They could send a 400 pound shell half a mile to pierce 11 inches of solid iron. It was a training ground for local forces and the British Army in the early 1900s. In World War 2, an American magnetic loop was installed at the fort.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/fort-st-catherine/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/fort-st-catherine/ Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:00:30 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/fort-st-catherine/ 32.39070700 -64.67461500

Scaur Hill Fort
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 20:55:13

From http://www.bermuda-online.org/forts.htm:

With 22 acres of fortified magnificent views, park land, picnic areas and walking trails. It was built in the 1860's and finished in the 1870's by the British Army's Royal Engineers, when the United Kingdom believed hawkish elements in the USA were conspiring to seize the Royal Naval Dockyard in retaliation for the role British ships played in helping the Confederate forces and using Bermuda as one of their ports. The fort protected the "land front" of the Dockyard from any enemy attack from South Shore beaches. An enormous dry moat was cut right across Somerset Island. Troops invading it from the mainland would have crossed under withering fire from cannons and rifles. As an inland fort, Fort Scaur had small 64 pound guns on disappearing carriages.]]>

Scaur Hill Fort
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 20:55:13

From http://www.bermuda-online.org/forts.htm:

With 22 acres of fortified magnificent views, park land, picnic areas and walking trails. It was built in the 1860's and finished in the 1870's by the British Army's Royal Engineers, when the United Kingdom believed hawkish elements in the USA were conspiring to seize the Royal Naval Dockyard in retaliation for the role British ships played in helping the Confederate forces and using Bermuda as one of their ports. The fort protected the "land front" of the Dockyard from any enemy attack from South Shore beaches. An enormous dry moat was cut right across Somerset Island. Troops invading it from the mainland would have crossed under withering fire from cannons and rifles. As an inland fort, Fort Scaur had small 64 pound guns on disappearing carriages.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/scaur-hill-fort/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/scaur-hill-fort/ Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:55:13 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/scaur-hill-fort/ 32.28526400 -64.87243300

Somerset Bridge -- Smallest Drawbridge in the World
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 20:47:28

From http://www.bermudatourism.com/default.asp?page=what_to_do.html:

One of the first three bridges built in Bermuda in the 17th Century, Somerset Bridge connects the mainland with Somerset Island. Charming Ely's Harbour is to the west and the Great Sound to the east. This picturesque bridge is said to be the smallest drawbridge in the world. The central plank can be raised to allow the mast of a sailboat through.]]>

Somerset Bridge -- Smallest Drawbridge in the World
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 20:47:28

From http://www.bermudatourism.com/default.asp?page=what_to_do.html:

One of the first three bridges built in Bermuda in the 17th Century, Somerset Bridge connects the mainland with Somerset Island. Charming Ely's Harbour is to the west and the Great Sound to the east. This picturesque bridge is said to be the smallest drawbridge in the world. The central plank can be raised to allow the mast of a sailboat through.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/somerset-bridge-smallest-drawbridge-in-the-world/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/somerset-bridge-smallest-drawbridge-in-the-world/ Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:47:28 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/somerset-bridge-smallest-drawbridge-in-the-world/ 32.27854300 -64.87681000

Gibb's Hill Lighthouse
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 20:42:19

From http://www.gibbshilllighthouse.com/history.htm:

Gibb's Hill Lighthouse began its job on May 1, 1846 and has been flashing out its beam to seafaring men ever since first by the use of kerosene, and finally these days by electricity. In the decade before the lighthouse was constructed, a total of 39 vessels were wrecked off the Western end of the is lands. Here the reefs extend some 16 miles or more out to sea. At the time of its construction in 1844, steel was not available for building purposes. As a result, Gibb's Hill Lighthouse is one of the few in the world made of cast iron.]]>

Gibb's Hill Lighthouse
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 20:42:19

From http://www.gibbshilllighthouse.com/history.htm:

Gibb's Hill Lighthouse began its job on May 1, 1846 and has been flashing out its beam to seafaring men ever since first by the use of kerosene, and finally these days by electricity. In the decade before the lighthouse was constructed, a total of 39 vessels were wrecked off the Western end of the is lands. Here the reefs extend some 16 miles or more out to sea. At the time of its construction in 1844, steel was not available for building purposes. As a result, Gibb's Hill Lighthouse is one of the few in the world made of cast iron.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/gibbs-hill-lighthouse/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/gibbs-hill-lighthouse/ Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:42:19 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/gibbs-hill-lighthouse/ 32.25294100 -64.83467800

Fort Hamilton
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 20:34:52

From http://www.bermuda-online.org/forts.htm:

It was ordered by the Duke of Wellington and designed to repel any attack on the city of Hamilton and its environs. It was completed in the 1870's out of solid rock by the British Army's Royal Engineers. At that time and for the next two decades, it was fully manned, bristling with long range guns operated by detachments of the British Army's Royal Artillery. Those were the days when Bermuda had a full garrison of British Army regulars. The country then considered most likely to invade Bermuda was the USA. But the fort, outdated before completion, never fired a shot in anger. Its former subterranean military walkways are now lovely moat gardens lined with tall bamboo's, other fine shrubs and flora - a botanist's paradise.]]>

Fort Hamilton
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 20:34:52

From http://www.bermuda-online.org/forts.htm:

It was ordered by the Duke of Wellington and designed to repel any attack on the city of Hamilton and its environs. It was completed in the 1870's out of solid rock by the British Army's Royal Engineers. At that time and for the next two decades, it was fully manned, bristling with long range guns operated by detachments of the British Army's Royal Artillery. Those were the days when Bermuda had a full garrison of British Army regulars. The country then considered most likely to invade Bermuda was the USA. But the fort, outdated before completion, never fired a shot in anger. Its former subterranean military walkways are now lovely moat gardens lined with tall bamboo's, other fine shrubs and flora - a botanist's paradise.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/fort-hamilton/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/fort-hamilton/ Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:34:52 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/fort-hamilton/ 32.29487800 -64.77712900

Fort Bruere
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 20:19:10

From http://www.bermuda-online.org/forts.htm:

Not accessible to the general public despite being classified with the nearby Town of St. George as a World Heritage site. In Tucker's Town at what is now Frick's Point, this small oval redoubt of a fort guarded Castle Island from a flanking attack launched by enemy forces from the Main Island. It commanded the narrow peninsular of Tucker's Town and the land ward approach to King's Castle. It was built during the American Revolution, probably during the brief tenure of Lieutenant Governor George Bruere, one of the sons of Governor Bruere. He succeeded his father who never fully recovered from both the shock of the theft of gunpowder from Bermuda in 1775 and that his other son, fighting in the British Army against the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill, died from wounds inflicted by that gunpowder.]]>

Fort Bruere
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 20:19:10

From http://www.bermuda-online.org/forts.htm:

Not accessible to the general public despite being classified with the nearby Town of St. George as a World Heritage site. In Tucker's Town at what is now Frick's Point, this small oval redoubt of a fort guarded Castle Island from a flanking attack launched by enemy forces from the Main Island. It commanded the narrow peninsular of Tucker's Town and the land ward approach to King's Castle. It was built during the American Revolution, probably during the brief tenure of Lieutenant Governor George Bruere, one of the sons of Governor Bruere. He succeeded his father who never fully recovered from both the shock of the theft of gunpowder from Bermuda in 1775 and that his other son, fighting in the British Army against the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill, died from wounds inflicted by that gunpowder.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/fort-bruere/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/fort-bruere/ Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:19:10 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/fort-bruere/ 32.34100100 -64.67242600

Landward Fort
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 20:11:45

From http://www.bermudatourism.com/default.asp?page=what_to_do.html:


This fort was built during the 1650s to guard the narrow passage between the Castle Island and the Bermuda mainland. The walls of the fort still survive. Castle Island is part of Bermuda’s National Parks.]]>

Landward Fort
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 20:11:45

From http://www.bermudatourism.com/default.asp?page=what_to_do.html:


This fort was built during the 1650s to guard the narrow passage between the Castle Island and the Bermuda mainland. The walls of the fort still survive. Castle Island is part of Bermuda’s National Parks.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/landward-fort/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/landward-fort/ Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:11:45 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/landward-fort/ 32.34010400 -64.67328400

King's Castle
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 20:06:56
From http://www.bermudatourism.com/default.asp?page=what_to_do.html:

King’s Castle is one of three 17th century forts still standing on Castle Island. A timber fort burned down in 1619. This masonry fort faces the sea and it contains a Captain’s House that was built in 1619, and may be the oldest standing English home in the New World.


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King's Castle
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 20:06:56
From http://www.bermudatourism.com/default.asp?page=what_to_do.html:

King’s Castle is one of three 17th century forts still standing on Castle Island. A timber fort burned down in 1619. This masonry fort faces the sea and it contains a Captain’s House that was built in 1619, and may be the oldest standing English home in the New World.


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Flatts Bridge and Inlet
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 20:02:07

From http://www.bermudatourism.com/default.asp?page=what_to_do.html:

Harrington Sound is an enclosed saltwater lagoon, with a narrow channel at Flatts Inlet (at the Bridge), allowing a strong tidal current, which changes direction every six hours. However, only half of the tidal flow to the Sound comes through this inlet – the rest comes through a myriad of underground cave systems which surround the Sound. This has resulted in Bermuda’s deepest inshore water area.]]>

Flatts Bridge and Inlet
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By: AlbinoFlea
@ 2005-09-12 20:02:07

From http://www.bermudatourism.com/default.asp?page=what_to_do.html:

Harrington Sound is an enclosed saltwater lagoon, with a narrow channel at Flatts Inlet (at the Bridge), allowing a strong tidal current, which changes direction every six hours. However, only half of the tidal flow to the Sound comes through this inlet – the rest comes through a myriad of underground cave systems which surround the Sound. This has resulted in Bermuda’s deepest inshore water area.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/flatts-bridge-and-inlet/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/flatts-bridge-and-inlet/ Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:02:07 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/flatts-bridge-and-inlet/ 32.32297000 -64.73654200

St. George
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By: rayearth
@ 2005-08-09 11:56:40]]>

St. George
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By: rayearth
@ 2005-08-09 11:56:40]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/st-george/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/st-george/ Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:56:40 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/st-george/ 32.38171900 -64.67702900

Royal Naval Dockyard
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By: rayearth
@ 2005-08-09 11:39:28]]>

Royal Naval Dockyard
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By: rayearth
@ 2005-08-09 11:39:28]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/royal-naval-dockyard/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/royal-naval-dockyard/ Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:39:28 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/royal-naval-dockyard/ 32.32494600 -64.83538600

Hamilton
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By: rayearth
@ 2005-08-09 11:33:46]]>

Hamilton
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By: rayearth
@ 2005-08-09 11:33:46]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/hamilton/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/hamilton/ Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:33:46 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/hamilton/ 32.29464200 -64.78272900

Airplane landing in Bermuda
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By: dwfarmer
@ 2005-05-11 17:33:17]]>

Airplane landing in Bermuda
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By: dwfarmer
@ 2005-05-11 17:33:17]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/airplane-landing-in-bermuda/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/airplane-landing-in-bermuda/ Wed, 11 May 2005 17:33:17 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/airplane-landing-in-bermuda/ 32.36600000 -64.69500000

Cruise ship in Bermuda
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By: nic
@ 2005-04-22 18:31:45]]>

Cruise ship in Bermuda
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By: nic
@ 2005-04-22 18:31:45]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/cruise-ship-in-bermuda/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/cruise-ship-in-bermuda/ Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:31:45 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/cruise-ship-in-bermuda/ 32.29169400 -64.78512200

Bermuda
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By: nic
@ 2005-04-20 22:59:03]]>

Bermuda
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By: nic
@ 2005-04-20 22:59:03]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/bermuda/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/bermuda/ Wed, 20 Apr 2005 22:59:03 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/bermuda/ 32.30958900 -64.74878300